Incarnation and Imagination in Jayber Crow: Wendell Berry's Divine Comedy
Wendell Berry models Jayber Crow on Dante’s Divine Comedy, and in doing so, he dramatizes a fundamental mystery of Christian theology: the Incarnation. Dante and Jayber make parallel errors on their winding pilgrimages to the beatific vision. At times they are tempted to enjoy created goods for thei...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2024
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2024, Volume: 73, Issue: 1, Pages: 119-137 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBC Doctrine of God NBK Soteriology |
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Incarnation
B Imagination B Jayber Crow B Wendell Berry B Dante |
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| Summary: | Wendell Berry models Jayber Crow on Dante’s Divine Comedy, and in doing so, he dramatizes a fundamental mystery of Christian theology: the Incarnation. Dante and Jayber make parallel errors on their winding pilgrimages to the beatific vision. At times they are tempted to enjoy created goods for their own sakes. At other times they experience frustration with the need to know Christ through the fallen-yet- redeemed members of his earthly body, and they seek instead to apprehend him directly. Yet both eventually enjoy the transcendent gift of God’s presence, and they do so mediated through his earthly body, the communion of saints. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2024.a925057 |